Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province (see map). Though the Communists have made considerable territorial gains during the last decade...
...about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
...happier with the ruling than psychiatrists. The president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Robert E. Cartwright, who believes the ruling is defined narrowly enough to be workable, dismissed the argument that patients will drop out of therapy or hide their intentions from therapists. "People in a violent frame of mind," said he, "don't read court decisions...
...supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free Press (October 17, 1974): "The crowd of approximately 75 protesters rushed into the empty auditorium tables. Cries of 'fight back' and 'down with the junta and the CIA, no free speech for Eduardo Frei' filled the room as the crowd settled into seats...
...offensive of 1972. The peace agreement initialed two years ago this Thursday by the four parties to the war--the United States, the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the Saigon government, and North Vietnam--was supposed to put an end to battles for provincial capitals. It was supposed to move the violent military struggle that killed Vietnamese and devastated their country to a new plane, in which political and intellectual struggle could decide the country's future...